Letter from Antoine Laurent Lavoisier to Joseph Black, 19 September 1789
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/IV/41-42
Scope and Contents
Letter from Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Paris to Joseph Black, dated 19 September 1789. The letter is about Lavoisier recommending Monsieur de Boullogne, a prospective student and also about his Traite elementaire de chimie (Elementary Treatise on Chemistry). The Lavoisier letters are printed in Report to the British Association, 1872 pp. 189-92.
Dates
- Creation: 19 September 1789
Creator
- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist) (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
English
Full Extent
1 letter
Subject
- Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) (Recipient, Person)
Repository Details
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University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk